Where does Watchmen fit in the comic book movies with Iron Man etc.?
ZS: I think that question is related to the graphic novel. It’s where the graphic novel lives in the graphic book world. Its place, in my opinion anyway, in the comic book world… Here’s the thing also: Iron Man, Batman, those two movies in particular, they’re not based on graphic novels per say. Those characters get to go on adventures based on a director or a writer coming up with one for them to go on. And there are political and or creative reasons why they did something that are completely valid and awesome, but they don’t serve any piece of literature like Watchmen does. I have an obligation to that material and I think that material, the last thing it wants to do is send its characters out on an adventure in the classic Hollywood sense. It’s completely deconstructed in what we’ve been trained to think a superhero is. DG: I think another example as to why this is being made now is it kind of stands in relation to the other superhero movies that the comic book did to the superher
